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  Aloysius Stepinac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The authorities held the trial as part of a wider affair of involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustaša regime.
The jury, mostly Catholics who were however close to the Tito communist rulership, that had sentenced Stepinac for treason and war crimes had been excomunicated by Pope.
On February 14, 1992, the Croatian Parliament symbolically overturned the 1946 court decision and condemned the process that led to it.
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 Fascism www.wikipedia.org
The draining of the malaria-infested Pontine Marshes south of Rome was one of the regime's proudest boasts.
In the early 1920s, the Catholic party in Italy (Partito Popolare) was in the process of forming a coalition with the Reform Party that could have stabilized Italian politics and thwarted Mussolini's projected coup.
The organization was forbidden by the Vatican to participate in politics, and thus was not permitted to oppose the fascist regime.
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 Ustaše - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Various members of the Croatian Party of Rights contributed to the writing, until around Christmas 1928 when the newspaper was banned by the authorities of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Roman Catholic apologists defend the Pope's actions by claiming that the convent at Petricevac was one of the places that went up in flames causing the death of 80-year-old Friar Alojzije Atlija.
Further, that the war had produced "a total exodus of the Catholic population from this region"; that the few who remained were "predominantly elderly"; and that the church in Bosnia then risked "total extinction" due to the war.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
During World War II a number of Croatian Catholic priests, and some of the then bishops in the territory, cooperated with the Ustaša regime, who ran a Nazi puppet state that pursued a genocidal policy against the Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jews and Roma.
The involvement of the church as a whole is also controversial due to several meetings and public sightings of Ante Pavelić;, the leader of the Ustaše, with the bishops and even the archbishop Alojzije Stepinac.
On November 17, 1941, a bishops' conference was convened in Zagreb regarding the issue of mass religious conversions.
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 Roman_Catholicism's_links_with_political_authorities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Catholic reaction, in anti-revolutionary risings such as the revolt in the Vendée were often bloodily suppressed.
Britain's activities abroad and relations with Catholic countries were hampered by the tension that existed between it and the Church, and it was eager to persuade the Church to end its moral support for Irish separatism.
Controversy surrounds the depths of the involvement of the Roman Catholic clergy with the Ustaše, a Croatian Fascist movement in the former Yugoslavia.
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 Pope John Paul II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pope John Paul II could not escape the controversy of the involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime of an active collaborator with the Ustaše fascist regime.
Catholic involvement with the African slave trade (9 August 1993).
He upheld the Catholic teaching against homosexual practices and same-sex marriage, which holds that although every homosexual person should be respected and loved, homosexual acts are intrinsically sinful.
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 Involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustaša regime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1941 the Independent State of Croatia was established by the Ustaša regime with Ante Pavelic as its leader (Poglavnik).
The involvement of the Catholic church as a whole is controversial.
During World War II a number of Croatian Catholic priests, and some of the then bishops in the territory, not only cooperated with the regime but were allegedly implicated in murders or forced religious conversions of Serbs and Jews.
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 Aloysius_Stepinac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Stepinac was born in the village of Brezarić, in the parish of Krašić, which lies on the border of the Zumberak and Pokuplija regions south west of the capital of Zagreb.
One of the documents introduced as incriminatory evidence at the trial was a letter that Stepinac was alleged to have written to the Pope in 1943, in which he expressed support for the mass conversion efforts of the Independent State of Croatia and for the state itself.
This trial was part of a wider affair of involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustaša regime.
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 Fascism Encyclopedia Articles @ Karr.net (Karr Network)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Vichy regime in France was also deeply influenced by the reactionary Catholic-influenced ideology of the Action Française.
Though there is some debate as to his actual involvement in planning the assassination attempt of Hitler, he was found guilty and executed for his alleged part in the conspiracy.
A small group of Protestant clergy under Martin Niemoeller and Dietrich Bonhoffer separated from the main churches to form the Confessing Church.
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 Fascism Encyclopedia Articles @ Fburg.com (F'burg)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Its use for similar but longer-lived regimes such as Spain under Francisco Franco and the Estado Novo of António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal is widespread among opponents of those regimes but is often disputed.
Hannah Arendt, whose focus is largely political, argues that regimes commonly thought of as fascist, such as Nazism, belong to a larger category of totalitarianisms
Watkins, who some accuse of being out of step with the academic mainstream, considers Mussolini's Fascist regime to be merely one example of the corporatist states that emerged during the Great Depression, including such diverse political systems as that of Spain, Argentina and the United States.
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 Ustase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The U Their hat insignia was the shield of Croatian coat of arms surrounded or embossed with the U. The flag of the Independent State of Croatia was a red-blue-white horizontal tricolor with the shield of the Croatian coat of arms in the middle and the U in the upper left.
Main article: Involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime Crucifix with weaponry The Usta&353;a policies against the Eastern Orthodoxy were related to the policy of the Roman Catholic Church known as "Uniatism", which consisted of Catholicizing as many Orthodox believers as possible, by means of re-baptism or by entering into Union.
The right-most parties, like the Croatian Party of Rights, are most commonly associated with Usta&353;ism and they have the support of a few percent of the population.
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 Pope.y2u.co.uk - Pope John Paul II The Great - His Life and Works
John Paul II called upon Catholics to vote according to their beliefs, even if they were based on their religion, and suggested that politicians who strayed be denied the Eucharist.
Pope John Paul II could not escape the controversy of the involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime of World War II in his relations with the Serb Orthodox Church.
Besides all the criticism from those demanding modernization, Traditional Catholics were at times equally vehement in denouncing him from the right, demanding a return to the Tridentine Mass and repudiation of the reforms instituted after the Second Vatican Council, such as the use of the vernacular language in Mass.
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During World War II a number of Croat Catholic priests, and some of the then bishops in the territory, cooperated with the Ustaa; regime, who ran a Nazi puppet state that pursued a genocidal policy ag...
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During World War II a number of Croat Catholic priests, and some of the then bishops in the territory, cooperated with the Ustaša; regime, who ran a Nazi puppet state that pursued a genocidal policy against the Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jews and Roma.
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 Aloysius Stepinac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The main fault of the Catholic Church in Croatia at the time seems to have been their lenience towards the fact that the mass religious conversions carried out by the clergy aligned with the Ustaše were merely a part of the persecution scheme aimed at the undesirable minorities — primarily the Serb Orthodox faithful.
However, because his trial was politically motivated and set up, he only served five (of the initial sixteen) years in prison before the sentence was commuted to home arrest in Krašić, where Stepinac was diagnosed with polycythemia in 1953 and died of thrombosis at the age of 62.
The proposers weren't Holocaust survivors themselves, which is a requirement for inclusion in the list, and also simultaneous collaboration or a close link with the fascist regime would preclude listing, according to a statement made by the Yad Vashem spokesperson.
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 Ustase - Slider   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Their hat insignia was the shield of Croatian coat of arms surrounded or embossed with the U. The flag of the Independent State of Croatia was a red-blue-white horizontal tricolor with the shield of the Croatian coat of arms in the middle and the U in the upper left.
The Ustaša policies against the Eastern Orthodoxy were related to the policy of the Roman Catholic Church known as "Uniatism", which consisted of Catholicizing as many Orthodox believers as possible, by means of re-baptism or by entering into Union.
The issue is the theme of a class action lawsuit in a California court of law, which first declined the case claiming a lack of jurisdiction, but as of 2005 the plaintiffs appeal was honored.
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 Fascism
In the mid-20th century the Roman Catholic church had a fundamental dislike of democracy and religious freedom, and was searching for an alternative.
The Croatian Catholic Nazi state was a genocidal totalitarian state that received full backing from the Vatican.
Father Jozef Tiso, head of the wartime fascist regime of Slovakia, which deported the country's Jews to the death camps, was a Catholic priest.
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 Aloysius Stepinac - TheBestLinks.com - Croatia, February 14, February 10, Holocaust, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This trial was part of a wider affair of involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime.
He was created cardinal on January 12, 1953 by Pope Pius XII during his imprisonment (with a note that he was "impeded"), a move which infuriated Tito's government in Yugoslavia.
Cardinal Stepinac was recommended on two occasions by two individual Jews from Croatia to be added to the list of Righteous Among the Nations, but the requests were denied (likely as the proposers weren't Holocaust survivors themselves, which is a requirement).
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 How the the Papal State collaborated with fascism in the Balkans
With the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church and the active participation of clergy, especially Franciscan monks, the Ustashe killed 750,000 Serbs, Jews, and Roma in an orgy of violence that shocked even some of the Germans and revolted their Italian allies.
Dedijer writes that "the highest dignitaries in the Roman Catholic Church gave their blessing to Ante Pavelic at a time when the so-called state of Croatia was proclaimed - at a time when the Yugoslav state and it's army still existed".
The Croatian Nazis, known as the Ustasha, burned villages and churches, operated slave labor and concentration camps, and committed atrocities that shocked even hardened German observers.
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 Fascist Encyclopedia Articles @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A controversial topic is the relationship between fascist movements and the Roman Catholic Church.
An early example is Austria which developed a quasi-fascist authoritarian Catholic regime some call the "Austro-fascist" Ständestaat between 1934 and 1938.
The new measures began to raise some opposition to the German Christians from a minority of Lutherans and Evangelicals who had become increasingly disillusioned with unethical practices of the Nazis and disliked state interference in church affairs.
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(see also Involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime) The Vichy regime in France was also deeply influenced by the...
regard to the relations with the Serb Orthodox Church, Pope John Paul II could not escape the controversy of the involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime of...
The Croatian Roman Catholic clergy headed by Archbishop Stepinac openly collaborasted with Ustasa...
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 Definition of Involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime
Definition of Involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime
He was proclaimed guilty and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
The list of authors can be found here.
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 Pope John Paul II Encyclopedia Articles @ ArtisticNudity.com (Artistic Nudity)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When the cost of installing a swimming pool in his summer residence was queried by cardinals, John Paul joked that it was "cheaper than another conclave".
He is also known for his development of the theology of the body.
In 1988, traditionalist, controversial Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the in 1970, was excommunicated after the ordination of four bishops, which was called by the Holy See a "schismatic act".
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 The Chaser Lounge - Lies. All lies.
a: a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
Portugal (1932-1968) - Although less restrictive than the Italian, German and Spanish regimes, the Estado Novo party of António de Oliveira Salazar was quasi-fascist.
Another controversial topic is the relationship between fascist movements and the Roman Catholic Church.
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 Fascism
The Italian Fascisti were also known as Black Shirts for their style of uniform incorporating a fl shirt (See Also: political colour).
Merriam-Webster defines fascism as "a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition"
It is often a matter of dispute whether a certain government is to be characterized as fascist, authoritarian, totalitarian, or a police state.
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